Bikes for Pastors Appeal
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Links: Current Project
Since 2002, the Victorian arm of CMA Australia has been raising funds to buy small motorcycles for pastors in developing countries. These pastors face huge problems in reaching their scattered people. Walking or a push bike are often the only alternatives and the gift of a motorcycle opens up great ministry opportunities. |
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 2008: Current Project
Now in its eighth year, our Bikes for Pastors appeal is working to provide a motorcycle for Peter Cunningham in Niger. |
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 2007: Jacob Varghese in India
Our most recent appeal, completed in 2007, provided a motorcycle for Joseph Varghese in India. |
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 2006: Joyonto and Sumitra Biswas in Bangladesh
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 2005: Angkol Tangwal in Bekisama, West Timor
Besikama is an isolated town on the south coast of West Timor, about 30 klms from the East Timor border. The minister there serves 16 congregations over a large area. The region is very hilly and the roads poor and during the wet season public transport virtually shuts down. West Timor and the surrounding islands are some of the poorest parts of Indonesia with high mortality rates, lack of education and little infrastructure. Congregations in the area cannot afford to pay a full wage so the minister cannot finance his own transport. He serves with the Evangelical Christian Church which is in partnership with the Uniting Church of Australia. A trail bike suitable for the conditions (pictured) cost sixteen million Indonesian rupiahs which is around $2,500 Australian dollars. |
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 2004: Himily Lumumbo in Tanzania
In 2004 CMA raised AU$4,000 (2,450 euros) to buy a Honda CT110 for the Rev'd Himily Lumambo in Tanzania to help with the travelling in his Christian education work. Himily, who is married with six children. is the ministry leader of a team which trains church leaders for the future. He became a Christian in 1989 and was ordained in 1990. He then went on to Theological College, earning a Bachelor of Divinity Degree. |
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 2003: Sunshine Childrens' Centre in Cambodia
Thanks to a generous response to the 2003 appeal and a strong Australian dollar CMA was able to provide money for two bikes for the Sunshine Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Centre is a drop in centre for working children aged from six to sixteen. It provides opportunities for formal and informal education - no mean task when many, even teenagers, have never even held a pencil. |
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2002: John Davis in India The first CMA bike went to Pastor John Davis in India 2002. John is married with a young son and lives at Chintapalli Lock, in Andhra Pradesh province. He looks after 15 villages, is involved with youth work and teaches some subjects at the International Curriculum Bible Course. 
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